Recipe Thursday

A couple of weeks ago we had a diocesan youth gathering at our parish. Andy and I were the ones organising the night and we decided that we wanted to invite the L’Arche crew over, we’d make some soup for them, and watch a movie. We had a great time, made tons of soup for them (so much that they might get sick of it), and enjoyed movie theatre-style popcorn while watching Pay It Forward. The following is one of the soup recipes that we used, and which I love. It’s tasty, hearty, and vegetarian. As like most of my recipes, it hails from allrecipes.com 🙂

I do not use the ‘vegetarian burger crumbles’, which really sound gross to me. Instead I use either 1 cup of raw quinoa (cooked prior) or 1 cup of brown rice (again, cooked prior). This helps ensure that you still get a full protein out of the meal (the rice when mixed with beans or the quinoa on its own).

I also prefer to use dried beans, soaking them overnight to the roughly equal quantity one would get in a can